priyanshus / pom-cucumber-protractor

Page object based protractor cucumber tests

Page object based Cucumber with Protractor

To install the dependencies

Before installing the dependencies make sure you have node 4 or above running on your system. At the time of updating this readme, I am using v5.12.0 of node.

To install the dependencies issue the command npm install

To run the cucumber tests

To run cucumber tests you can issue below command:

node_modules/.bin/protractor cucumber.config.js

Learnings

• When I started using Protractor, I was considering everything asynchronous and was writing code with a lot of then blocks like this:

  openExploreToggleNavigation: {
      value: function () {
          var exploreToggleNavigationElement = element(by.css(selectors.exploreToggleNavigation)),
              democratesLinkElement = element(by.css(selectors.democratesLink));
  
          return exploreToggleNavigationElement.click()
              .then(function () {
                      return democratesLinkElement.click();
                  });
      }
  }
  

Thanks to all who cleared confusion here angular/protractor#909. Actually you can write protractor tests in synchronous way considering the fact that protractor itself takes care of promises.

• Next learning for me is that, no need to handle promises using callback in cucumber step-definitions files. You can simply return them using return statement.